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I don't read a lot of modern stuff anymore; writers over the last ten years or so have all but eradicated the last thirty years of canon, effectively altering everything I loved about the titles I used to read.

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And LoudLon, I can't believe how I forgot Cerebus the awesome ardvaark. Especially since it's canadian. Your Cerberus made me remind it. I have 3 books of him. Great black and white art Dave Sim gave us. Thanks for bringing it back to me man.

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There is a prequel to it The Courtyard. You can get both series together in a graphic novel. Pretty cheap about fifteen bucks with shipping and handling. Actually it's about 25 bucks. I guess it went up in price since I bought it.

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I normally only buy the ones I REALLY want for real as I can find the rest hidden in a Dark corner of Cyberspace.

Like my most recent buy, the extraordinary End Elizabeth by Sky-Doll's drawer Barbara Canepa and it's an amazing story and like in Sky-Doll, amazing drawings. Her cat is just way too cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEC34oJY3Mk

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I'm fortunate that I can check-out comics from different libraries in Wyoming, by going on-line. They ship them free to the library in my town too. If not for that. I wouldn't be able to afford to buy them.

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Savage dragon is my earliest comic memory. Chew, Locke & Key, Saga, Manhattan Projects and Fatale are some of my favorite current running series outside DC & Marvel. The Goon is another always solid choice. 100 bullets was awesome, looking forward to the new series. Preacher was the shit. Animal Man has always been a guilty pleasure and the new 52 incarnation from DC is great too. Deadpool was great when written by Joe Kelly and Victor Gischler but is a joke now. I wish they'd let Rick Remender write him. He was spot on with the character in Uncanny XForce.

Current mainstream books killing it are Batman, Aquaman (and he always sucked), Batman & Robin, and Earth 2 from DC. Hawkeye, FF, Daredevil, New Avengers and all new xmen are marvels current best. I am also surprisingly entertained with Avengers Arena.

And if you get the chance, I think many of you would enjoy the mini series Punk Rock Jesus. So bad ass. Its collected in a trade paperback now so pick it up

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The first issue of Savage Dragon I ever saw, the cover had a female demon holding Dragon's severed, bloody head and I was immediately hooked. I knew I was going to love that comic before I even opened it up. I lost track of it after moving to Canada and didn't read it for a couple years, but I have a complete run of the first 70 issues or so and they're one of the prides of my collection. I haven't read much of him lately but when I do pick up the occasional issue, it's nice to see that creator Erik Larson (who is one of the few comic creators to have written and penciled every single issue of his own comic for twenty years and counting) is still churning out action-packed super hero goodness.

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LoudLon wrote:

I don't read a lot of modern stuff anymore; writers over the last ten years or so have all but eradicated the last thirty years of canon, effectively altering everything I loved about the titles I used to read.

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Yeah, Sin City is great but I still prefers the first ones in Black & white. Color didn't have the same effect on me. Still pretty good but not the same intensity.

Just ordered Tank Girl The Odyssey http://www.comicvine.com/tank-girl-the- 050-20008/ at the book store, it contains the 4 tomes in one book, kick ass. And I can't wait to get it. I like Hewlett's drawings a whole lot. I even met the dude and even went to have drinks with him in a bar during Angoulème expo in France which is one of the biggest in the world with Comic-Con. Very nice and extremely cool Punk [like his heroine girl] guy. Was sweet.